INIMITABLE EDDIE CANTOR

Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 11

INIMITABLE EDDIE CANTOR

STARRED IN REGENT'S COMING ATTRACTION ‘ Roman Scandals,’ Eddie Cantor’s great musical film, will open a season at the Regent Theatre on i'nday. It is one of the most original and hilarious comedies- ever produced on screen or stage. As the title implies, the film gives a musical-comedy insight into a few scandals of early Rome, the chief figures, being an Emperor, an Empress, a favourite, and an odd slave or two, Cantor, of course, is the most prominent figure in the show. As a slave who is freed and who gets mixed up in all sorts of trouble at the court of tho Emperor Valerius, the comedian gives a performance that eclipses even that which made him so popular in ‘ Whoopee.’ The picture starts off in the little town of West Rome, in the U.S.A., where Cantor is seen as a grocer’s assistant who is forever getting into trouble. He is finally made to leave the town, and on doing so fervently wishes that he were in tho real Rome of days gone by—and lo and behold, he finds himself there. Within .a few hundred feet of film he gets properly mixed up in the court life of the Emperor Valerius. Adventures follow adventures, and finally he leaves the city with dozens of enraged Romans in close pursuit in their chariots. The show is most lavishly mounted, the various Roman scenes being particularly beautiful.